no·ta be·ne News from the Yale Library

volume xxvi, number 2, fall/winter 2011

Opening in January: The New Center for Science and Social Science Information

In January 2012, the new Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI), a collaboration between the Yale University Library and Yale Information Technology Services (ITS), will formally open in its new home at 219 Prospect Street in the Kline Biology Tower. Located in a fully renovated space, the former location of the Kline Science Library, the Center will incorporate the services of the Kline Science Library, the Social Science Library and the ITS StatLab. The CSSSI represents a new level of partnership between ITS and the Library and will provide state-of-the-art information services in a technology-rich environment. The CSSSI will open for business on January 3rd, 2012, and will host an Open House for the Yale Community on January 11th from 4–6pm. All members of the Yale community are invited to the opening celebration, where refreshments will be served and mementos given to mark the occasion. University Librarian, Susan Gibbons, noted, “For many of our students and faculty, library resources and technology are closely intertwined in their academic work practices. CSSSI is the opportunity to now explore how the Library and ITS can intertwine their services to provide expanded and comprehensive information services to the Yale community”. Exterior photo of the Kline Biology Tower While the CSSSI renovations are underway, the services of both the Science and Social Science Libraries remain based at 140 Prospect until December 16th, when the library and StatLab begin the move to the new CSSSI space in the Kline Biology Tower. The CSSSI project was initiated in 2008 when the Yale Corporation approved the expansion of Yale College through the construction of two new residential colleges on the site that includes 140 Prospect Street, the current home of the Social Science Library and the ITS StatLab. It has created the opportunity for Yale to enhance services to the Science and Social Science communities at Yale and to create new, technologically complete collaboration spaces for students. For more information about the services and hours of the new Center as well as to view images of the renovation progress, visit: http://csssi.yale.edu. Architectural rendering of the inside of the new CSSSI continued on page 2

2 Artspace Library Science Exhibit 5 Divinity Library Images to be on 7 Yale Archivist Receives Comes to the Yale Library Display at Chinese International Inaugural Bouchet Award Photography Biennial in Beijing 3 Walpole Library Digitizes Horace 8 Calendar of Exhibits Walpole’s Correspondence 6 Digital Himalaya Project Now Co-located at Yale and Cambridge table 4 The Book as Memorial: Book Artists Universities of contents Respond to and Remember 9/11 6 Making Medieval Manuscripts 5 OHAM Announces Wolpe Acquisition at the Yale Library and Increases Jazz Holdings fall/winter 2011 no·ta be·ne news News from the Yale Library CSSSI continued from front page

List of Services The Center for Science and Social Science Information will provide a wide array of services to support the needs of students and researchers in the Sciences and Social Sciences. Services to be provided by the Center include: · Convenient, personalized and global access to information through integrated services and resources · An adaptive, service-committed staff that anticipates and responds proactively to user needs and new technologies · A link to other university services in support of digital archiving, intellectual Nota Bene is published during the property management, and using media academic year to acquaint the Yale technology community and others interested Architectural rendering of the inside of the new CSSSI with the resources of the Yale · A full suite of data support services for Library. Please direct comments all sciences and social sciences (identification, and questions to Amanda Patrick, acquisition, analysis, manipulation, format Editor, Sterling Memorial Library, periods to provide new and improved technology conversion, metadata, and storage) (phone: 203-432-4484, e-mail: and study facilities [email protected]) · A broad range of research support including · Public Macintosh and PC workstations in-depth support for discipline-specific research Copyright ©2011 equipped with a comprehensive software suite, Yale University Library software and reference and consultation services issn 0894-1351 coupled with high level technology assistance · Document and book delivery services, scan for specialized media and technologies and on demand, and delivery of print materials to end-user IT support faculty offices Contributors to this issue include · A new StatLab computer classroom, with dual Ellen Cordes (erc) · 180,000 volume on-site print collection, display workstations and new collaborative Helen Kauder (hk) and expert support for text-based materials, Christine McCarthy (cm) and an extensive and growing electronic technologies Carol Padberg (cp) information collection · Scheduled group study and presentation Jill Parchuck (jp) Amanda Patrick (ajp) · Librarian subject specialists to serve the breadth preparation rooms, equipped with video Anne Rhodes (ar) of science and social science disciplines recording capabilities, writeable surfaces, Kianti Roman (kr) and flexible furniture Jae Rossman (jr) · Inspiring, inviting and functional spaces that Judith Schiff (js) encourage intellectual discovery, creativity, · Digital video wall to display faculty research and Martha Smalley (ms) collaboration, and social discourse other areas of Yale excellence, as well as current Mark Turin (mt) · 24/7 access to designated spaces, and extended trends in information services and technology hours on evenings, weekends, and peak study that support of research and teaching. –jp & ajp

Artspace Library Science Exhibit comes to the Yale Library

Two locations in the Yale Library — Sterling Memorial — and the information it contains — and how it is Library and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library ­— being radically transformed by the digital era. Through editorial information are hosting art installations from November to January drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, painting Susan Gibbons as part of Artspace’s Library Science, an exhibition and web-based projects, the artists in Library Science University Librarian curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Senior Curator at explore the library through its unique forms, attributes Amanda Patrick Exit Art, New York. Bringing together a selection and systems: from public stacks to private collections, Editor, Director of of work by 17 international artists, Library Science from unique architectural spaces to the people who Communications contemplates the personal, intellectual and physical populate them, from traditional card catalogues to that ChenDesign Publication Design relationship to the library as a venerable institution evergrowing “cyber-library,” the World Wide Web. continued next page 2 Artspace continued from page 2

Artspace is New Haven’s largest independent visual arts venue, consider the consequences of the cultural journey from Sumerian showcasing a mix of local and national artists in a downtown corner tablets and the printing press, to digital tablets and the Internet. The storefront in the historic Ninth Square district. While the bulk Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is hosting an installation by Tyler of the exhibit is on view at Artspace, several institutions around Starr called “Burning Wants”. Other locations hosting installations town are hosting installations. Sterling Memorial Library features include the New Haven Free Public Library, The Institute Library and Augmented/Obstructed by artists Carol Padberg and Andy Deck. The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum. The exhibit will be Using barcode patterns installed in the old card catalog drawers, on view from November 12–January 28. that are incomprehensible to the human gaze, but perceptible For more information: www.artspacenh.org. –hk & ajp with the assistance of software, their work invites viewers to

Walpole Library Digitizes Horace Walpole’s Correspondence

An electronic version of all 48 volumes of The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937–1983), edited by W.S. Lewis, is now available online thanks to a project funded by the Lewis Walpole Library. Because a number of volumes have been unavailable, it has not been possible to put together a complete set of the edition for many years. By creating a free, online version of the Yale Edition, the Library has facilitated access to this essential resource for scholars and students working in eighteenth-century studies. The Yale Edition has made a major contribution to the political, social, and cultural history of Britain. Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, England’s first Prime Minister, was probably the best-connected and most prolific correspondent in eighteenth-century Britain, and his waspish and well-informed letters are an essential source for historians in Britain and America. Lewis’s work set a new standard for scholarly editing by providing an authoritative text, extensive and informative annotations, and a comprehensive index. The appendices include a wealth of supplementary texts, A detail of photograph of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis seated at his desk in the including writings by Walpole and several of his correspondents. North Library in Farmington, circa 1940. The Library’s goal in developing an electronic version of the Yale Edition can best be expressed by Lewis’s own words in the Preface to the first volume of the printed edition: 26,595 pages were scanned to create separate image files. Each file “Its primary intention is to facilitate the studies of was then run through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scholars in the eighteenth century. Sooner or later, processing to enable full-text searches. Finally a PDF file was the eighteenth century scholar, be his subject what it created for each page to facilitate printing and saving files. After may, must consult Walpole’s correspondence Politics, exploring other digitization initiatives, George Ouellette, one of Society, Literature, and the Arts, these are the subjects the Project leaders and Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Lewis which immediately come to mind when Horace Walpole Walpole Library, wrote the program and designed the interface. is thought of, but there are as many more as there were Unveiled in early September, the response to the electronic divisions in eighteenth century life. This edition, through version has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. As one fan wrote, its index, hopes to lead the scholar, whether the subject “splendid achievement. We’ll all delight in going online with of his search is Dr. Johnson or ballooning, to whatever this extraordinary read of a lifetime immediately!” Walpole’s correspondence may have to say about it.” The Library plans to enhance this electronic edition and Making the Yale Edition freely available online was the brainchild welcomes your feedback as this resource is developed. Please send of Margaret Powell, W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director questions and comments to project leaders George Ouellette, Senior of the Lewis Walpole Library. The books were sent in December Programmer/Analyst, Lewis Walpole Library, and Ellen Cordes, 2010 to Kirtas Technologies in Victor, New York, where all Head of Technical Services, Lewis Walpole Library. –erc

3 The Book as Memorial: Book Artists Respond to and Remember 9/11

Ten years have passed since the tragedy of 9/11. People in all parts of the country were affected and many of them looked for ways to respond. An exhibition, currently on view at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, shows artwork created in response to the events of that fateful day. The Book as Memorial: Book Artists Respond to and Remember 9/11 focuses on works that memorialize the people lost and the indescribable sense that we, as a people, also lost something more intangible. Some may call it a sense of innocence, others may call it a sense of safety, but few Americans would deny that the world felt changed after that day. These artists have used the book format to give shape to these difficult thoughts and emotions and to share them with a wider audience in an act of remembrance. The works in the exhibition are part of the larger tradition of artists’ books in which one artist or a small set of collaborators aim to use the book format as an integral part of their message, not just a container for or transmitter of information. In many cases the artists have used alternate formats, sculptural elements, or unexpected methods to arrest the attention of the reader and engage him or her in direct dialogue. The artists have worked in a variety of approaches — from abstracted imagery to onsite sketches, from lists of names to first-person accounts — to render their personal viewpoint to which the reader can relate his or her own experiences. In these works, memory and place are intimately connected. The books function as a site of memory, either as a sculptural recollection of the towers or as a place that readers can hold in their hands, even carry with them, just as we carry the memory of that day with us. Curator of the Arts of the Book collection at Yale, Jae Rossman, described her involvement with the project in the following way: “Book Eleven” by Rocco Scary. It is a unique book object with a sheet “This project was very personal for me because I of handmade paper for each of the people lost at the WTC site. It is on loan by courtesy of the artist. have been collecting artists’ work about 9/11 for Yale since late 2001. At the five-year anniversary I knew it was not yet time to present the work I had collected so far. Additionally, many artists were still struggling to find the right voice to deal with this difficult subject; there are multiple works in the exhibit created after 2006. It has been a very gratifying experience to see the positive reaction of the Yale community to this exhibition. I believe this grouping of artists’ books about 9/11 will provide an important additional viewpoint for scholars to consider in future studies.” –jr

The installation on the bulletin board was created just for this exhibit. It includes handmade paper “postings” with Silverberg’s personal reflections on 9/11 ten years later. The official name of the piece is “Anamnesis: 9/11 Postings” Also on loan by courtesy of the artist.

4 OHAM Announces Wolpe Acquisition and Increases Jazz Holdings

Oral History of American Music (OHAM) recently announced the acquisition of the Oral History. The collection features more than 100 interviews with colleagues, family, and friends of the German-born composer who emigrated to the in order to escape the Nazi regime. The collection was acquired from Austin Clarkson, a musicologist and emeritus professor at York University. Interviewees include , Elliot Carter and Morton Feldman, as well as Wolpe’s widow, poet Hilda Morley Wolpe and his first wife, pianist Irma Wolpe. The interviews, many of which have been transcribed, can be heard at OHAM’s offices, located at 310 Prospect Street. OHAM also welcomed Taylor Ho Bynum as a freelance interviewer. Bynum, a cornetist and composer who has been referred to as Wadada Leo Smith, photo by Ingo Kniest “one of the most brilliant new third millennial masters of his generation” (Anthony Braxton, Boston Globe 2005), brings a vast knowledge the scope of the collection by focusing on recipient Sean Friar (both conducted of improvised music and avant-garde jazz to the creative music legends of our time. by OHAM director Libby Van Cleve), OHAM. He recently interviewed renowned Other recent OHAM interviews and with distinguished composer and jazz composer Wadada Leo Smith and will include those with Pulitzer Prize-winning Americanist Neely Bruce (conducted by continue to assist OHAM in broadening composer David Lang and Rome prize OHAM archivist Anne Rhodes). –ar

Divinity Library Images to be on Display at Chinese International international Photography Biennial in Beijing

Photo (left) Winnowing rice in a family courtyard, ca. 1920, from the Roberts Family Papers, Yale Divinity School Library Photo (right) Refugee family moving belongings on cart, Shaanxi, China, ca. 1900, from the Dean Goddard Papers, Yale Divinity School Library

The Yale Divinity Library has been asked via the International Mission Photography 1800s to shortly after 1950. Perhaps more to provide more than seventy-five high Archive. (http://www.usc.edu/impa) The so than diplomatic, military, or business resolution images of photographs for the Divinity Library contributes images and personnel stationed in China during this 2011 Chinese International Photography metadata to this archive along with several period, missionaries were able to walk freely Biennial “The People, 100 Years”, which other archival repositories in the U.S., among the people observing everyday events. will be on view December 1–7 at the Beijing Britain, and Europe. The China photographs The Biennial organizers indicated that the Yan Huang Art Museum. The organizers of in the Divinity Library’s collections were missionary photographs provide a unique the Biennial discovered the photographs from taken by Protestant missionaries who worked and rare perspective, and that they are very the Divinity Library’s Special Collections in various areas of China from the mid pleased to include them in the exhibit. –ms

5 Digital Himalaya Project Now Co-located at Yale and Cambridge Universities

In the summer, the Yale University Library welcomed Mark Turin, a linguistic anthropologist from Cambridge University, who will be spending the next three years at Yale expanding the Digital Himalaya Project that he oversees. Established in December 2000 at the University of Cambridge, the Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project’s three initial aims were to: preserve materials that were fast deteriorating in their analogue forms (including film, photographs, audio recordings, census data, field notes, maps and rare publications); to make these resources available online; and to return the collections in appropriate formats to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected. Based at Yale’s South Asia Studies Council, Mark will be working closely with Library staff as the project increases its scanning of rare journals and publications, with a view to embedding Digital Himalaya Mark Turin showing digitized clips of Frederick Williamson’s 1930s in the Yale University Library system through the migration of all films to historians and descendants in Sikkim, North India. datasets to a secure digital repository for long-term sustainability. “Bringing Digital Himalaya to Yale offers the project a chance to partner a worldwide user community to a vast corpus of textual and with one of the world’s premier research libraries. It’s extremely exciting multimedia resources from or about India, Nepal, Bhutan for me to work collaboratively with the Yale library staff —leading experts and the Tibetan plateau for free and easy download, without in knowledge curation and dissemination — to help enrich the project’s payment, subscription or password. Mark hopes to work with online collections and build them into the emerging digital humanities library staff and members of the Instructional Technology infrastructure here at Yale” stated Mark. Group to enhance the interactivity of the website and ensure What began as a strategy for collecting and protecting the products that these unique resources continue to serve a diverse, of colonial-era ethnography on the Himalayas has, over the last decade, global and ever more demanding user community. become a collaborative digital publishing environment, bringing a new For more information about Digital Himalaya, collection online every month, with close to half a million web visitors contact: [email protected] or visit the website at: since its establishment. The Digital Himalaya website now connects www.digitalhimalaya.com. –mt preservation

Making Medieval Manuscripts at the Yale Library

Have you ever looked at a beautiful, illuminated medieval manuscript and wondered, “How did they make that? What did they write with, and what did they write on?” What kind of paint is that, and is that real gold? On June 9, 2011, fifth-graders at New Haven’s Hooker Middle School learned the answers to these questions as their class was transformed into a medieval scriptorium. With YUL conservators, Christine McCarthy and Paula Zyats, and Conservation Assistant, Ronel Namde, as their guides, the fifth-graders learned about inks and pigments, parchment and paper, calligraphy and paleography. They each got a chance to learn to write with a feather quill and ink on parchment and to make their own bound “illuminated” manuscript to take home! The conservators showed examples of traditional materials used by people in the Middle Ages to write and decorate manuscripts — insect nests (galls) from oak trees used to make inks and raw minerals that are ground up to create colored pigments. The students were especially transfixed by real 16th century books borrowed for the class from the A special thank you manuscript from the Hooker Middle School 5th graders and examples of some of the teaching handouts Beinecke Library’s book history teaching collection. continued next page 6 Hooker Middle School 5th Graders and their finished “medieval” manuscripts

Medieval Manuscripts continued from page 6 The hands-on manuscript class was one of a series of teaching James, Curator for Early Modern Books at the BRBL, on a teaching exercises offered by the conservators and conservation assistants in kit and companion “lesson plans” for undergraduate and graduate the Library’s Preservation Department. Over the last two years, staff students at Yale. The kit will offer examples of parchment and leather offered lectures, bookmaking lessons, and laboratory tours to children skins, traditional inks, medieval book models that can be handled in the New Haven public schools, the New Haven Free Public and experimented with in the classroom and complement the rich Library, and the Housatonic Waldorf School. Each of the programs collections faculty and students use for study. This kit is an outgrowth — ‘Make Your Own Pop-up Treasure Map’, ‘Scroll to Codex: History of laboratory tours and course lectures given for students in three of the Book Form’, and ‘Make Your Own Medieval Manuscript’ English Department courses over the last two years. These courses — were designed to introduce school-aged children to the field of focused on both the textural and materials aspect of the medieval conservation, the wide-array of objects found in Yale’s collections, manuscripts and the relationships between these early books to and the history of the book. new contemporary electronic media. The completion and piloting These sessions with school-aged children have been successful of the teaching kit, tentatively called, “The Traveling Scriptorium,” and rewarding. Conservation staff are now working with Kathryn is planned for the spring of 2012. –cm

Yale Archivist Receives Inaugural Bouchet Award

Judith Schiff, chief research archivist, has been named the inaugural World Special Olympics in New Haven and the archives of Charles recipient of the Edward Bouchet Legacy Award, named after the Lindbergh and his family, one of the largest and most valuable first African-American graduate of Yale College. collections in the Yale Library archives. The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Schiff’s role has evolved to include reporting, teaching, and museum established the award to recognize stalwart contributors to the growth work. Since 1987, she has penned the “Old Yale” column, which and expansion of the Bouchet Society, which has co-founding chapters reflects on historical figures and events, in theYale Alumni Magazine. at Yale and Howard. The Yale archivist received her bachelor’s degree from Barnard “Our knowledge of Bouchet’s life and academic achievements is due in College and a master’s from Columbia University; she also earned a large part to Schiff’s research and her dedication to preserving his legacy,” degree in library science from Southern Connecticut State College. said Curtis Patton, a professor of epidemiology and public health at When Bouchet received his doctorate in physics from Yale in Yale, who presented the award to Schiff at the Bouchet Society’s sixth 1876, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an annual forum in September at Howard University. American university. He was also the first African American in the During her 50-year tenure at Yale, Schiff has worked on such country to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa. A portrait of Bouchet now significant Yale projects as the Tercentennial celebration, the hangs in the transept of Sterling Memorial Library. –js & kr

7 calendar of exhibits

Sterling Memorial Library Haas Family Arts Library 120 High Street 180 York Street sml elevator cases The Book as Memorial: Book Artists Respond to Théophile Gautier, 1811–1872 and Remember 9/11 through December 19, 2011 through December 16, 2011 Monarchs in Mesopotamia Tom Morin’s Threads of Influence: The Visual December 19, 2011 – March 16, 2012 History of a Life in Graphic Design January 13 – April 13, 2012 sml corridor exhibit cases Nature’s Own Shape through December 16, 2011 Cushing/Whitney Medical Library New Acquisitions from Around the World 2011 333 Cedar Street December 22, 2011 – March 30, 2012 cushing/whitney medical library rotunda

Irving S. Gilmore Music Library 100 Years of Child Study at Yale through January 9, 2012 Franz Liszt: Transcending the Virtuosic through January 31, 2012 Nicolas Rüdinger, Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers 1861–67 Memorabilia Room (The first photographic atlas of the peripheral nervous system) Making Sense of Religion January 10 – March 1, 2012 through February 3, 2012 Medicine in Shakespeare’s Alexander Smith Cochrane and the Founding of the Elizabethan Club March 5 – June 18, 2012 December 1, 2011 – May 18, 2012 cushing/whitney medical library hallway Yale’s Shakespeareans U.S. Food Administration Posters from WWI February 13 – May 18, 2012 through January 9, 2012 For more information: La leçon d’anatoie du docteur Velpeau with Anatomy www.library.yale.edu Prints Selected from the Gift of Lilly Hollander 2010 January 10 – March 1, 2012

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 121 Wall Street Exile as Destiny: Czeslaw Milosz and America through December 17, 2011 Comic Inventions: The Pre-History of the Graphic Narrative in the Nineteenth Century through December 17, 2011 Remembering Shakespeare Two images of posters from February 1 – June 4, 2012 Medical Library exhibits — one from the current U.S. Food For more information: Administration WWI exhibit www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/ and one from the upcoming brblexhibits.html anatomy exhibit in January.

Divinity Library 409 Prospect Street rotunda and day missions reading room Early Works on Biblical Exegesis through January 15, 2012 Christianity in Nepal: Documentation cushing/whitney medical library foyer from the Day Missions Collection Anti-Drug and AIDS Awareness Posters from January 15 – June 15, 2012 the 1980s and 1990s through January 9, 2012 For more information: www.library.yale.edu/div/librarynews.html For more information: http://cushing.med.yale.edu/blog/?cat=6